garbage

If you are interested in living green than be aware of what you buy and what it’s packaged in.  Skip the tortured process of

A fun little story about using bike trailers to clean up a riverbed on Earth Day weekend. That trailer is a beast!

The garbage is a place we tend to put all kinds of things we don’t know what to do with, and things we’re unaware should be put elsewhere. Perhaps the reason we don’t know the answers to many “trashy” questions is because we’d just rather avoid the topic.

There are videos that go with this, it is pretty disgusting to see how polluted our oceans really are.

Like many scientific discoveries, this one was an accident as well.While maybe not as exciting as the Chernobyl discovery, not visually appealing as The Colombia Experiment or as lofty as The God Theory,The Trashoponics is an important discovery that brings mankind one step closer toward freedom and self-reliance.

Warning: so, as the video and Oprah ’s darling du jour and guerrilla closet warrior Peter Walsh so clearly outlines, our pack-rat habits are making us chubby. They can also be a barrier to us going green. We share fast, eco-friendly de-clutter tips for busy lives..

What happens when you recycle, compost, or craig's list all your trash and no longer need (or want to pay for) city trash service? If you live in San Carlos, CA, you can expect a lawsuit from the city.

Why are we cutting down our trees to make an expensive limited life cycle cardboard box to then use it one, maybe twice and throwing it away, expanding our landfills? Another approach is to use hard-to-recycle plastic trash to make a series of Recopack boxes that detoxes landfills and provides a zero- waste pack-and-move solution.

At this year's NAIAS, General Motors is announcing their partnership with Coskata, as they believe in taking the first step toward producing a new biofuel. Household garbage, old tires, and even plant stalk after harvest all contain carbon which can be turned into fuel for our cars and trucks, cheaply and efficiently.

Believe it or not, all it takes is one simple sentence upon ordering: “And I won’t be needing the utensils and stuff, thank you.”

The fascinating blog of a man who saved his trash for an entire year in order that he could "see, feel and understand more clearly."

Garbage is the product of how we have decided to produce things and run our society. 94 per cent of the inputs, the raw materials and energy that go into a product, never make it into the output, the finished item. In other words, we make way more garbage than we make stuff; it's just "easier" that way. And of course, most of the stuff we make is garbage. But there are other options.

Where do you put 22 million tons of trash? In the UK we still send 77% of our garbage to landfill, despite it being the worst possible way to deal with it. But what are the effects, and what are the alternatives?

Instead of bagging up all those pretty fall leaves and stacking them out at the curb, turn them into compost, and save energy and landfill space.

Purveyors of credit card offers, home equity loans and "urgent" envelopes beware.